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Employee Reimbursements: Approval, Payment and Posting to Your ERP

Employee Reimbursements: Approval, Payment and Posting to Your ERP

Approve employee expense claims in Finofo, post them to your ERP and pay them individually or in reimbursement batches through Finofo Payments.

At a glance

Reimbursable claims are approved, posted to your ERP and paid back to employees through the same workflow as vendor invoices.

Each employee is paid through their linked vendor record. Approved claims can be paid in a reimbursement batch, paid individually or marked as paid outside Finofo.

How It Works

A submitted claim follows the Expenses approval policies. A policy can test Total amount, Vendor, Label and Currency, for example sending any expense over 100 to two approvers in turn; anything no policy matches goes to the default approval group. Approvers act from My tasks, where the item opens as an Expense approval. They can review each expense, approve, send it back or reject it with a reason, and nobody approves their own expenses.

An approved claim becomes a payable. Its ERP section shows the destination ERP and a note that the expense has not been posted yet until you click Post to ERP. The claim posts against the employee's vendor record.

On the Approved tab, ticking claims shows a selection bar with the count, an X to clear the selection and five icon buttons: Send for approval, Post to ERP, Pay, Cancel expenses and Delete. Reimbursement batches are listed in Expenses > Batch payments, with the same status tabs as vendor batches and the columns Reimbursables and Payees. Batches are approved and released in Finofo Payments, and paid claims move to In Payment, then Paid.

Approve a Claim

1. Open My tasks and select the expense approval.

2. Click Open document to check the receipt, amount, coding and Memo, or Approval steps to see who else approves.

3. Approve the claim, or reject it with a reason.

Post and Pay Approved Claims

1. Open Expenses > Reimbursables, select the Approved tab and tick the claims to pay.

Reimbursables, Approved tab, with a claim ticked.
Reimbursables, Approved tab, with a claim ticked.

2. To post a single claim, open it and click Post to ERP in its ERP section.

An approved claim: Approved status, Payments with Pay and Add credit, and the ERP section with Post to ERP.
An approved claim: Approved status, Payments with Pay and Add credit, and the ERP section with Post to ERP.

3. Click the Pay icon on the selection bar to pay the ticked claims. It is the paper plane, the third of the five icons.

The selection bar for one ticked claim: the X and the five icon buttons.
The selection bar for one ticked claim: the X and the five icon buttons.

4. Open Expenses > Batch payments to follow reimbursement batches by status.

Expenses > Batch payments, Draft tab, with the Reimbursables and Payees columns.
Expenses > Batch payments, Draft tab, with the Reimbursables and Payees columns.

5. Approve and release the batch in Finofo Payments. Paid claims move to Paid.

Set Up Expense Approval

1. As an administrator, open Settings > Approval Workflows, select Policies and then Expenses.

Expense approval policies: a high-value policy with its condition, approval group and approvers, and the catch-all row.
Expense approval policies: a high-value policy with its condition, approval group and approvers, and the catch-all row.

2. Check each policy's condition, approval group and approvers, and the catch-all row for everything else.

Tips

  • Link each employee's vendor record before their first claim, so postings and payments land in the right place.
  • Pay reimbursements on a regular schedule, so employees know when to expect their money.
  • Use Amt. outstanding on the Reimbursables list to see what is still owed to each employee.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is an employee paid?

Through the vendor record linked to them in Settings > Submitters, to that record's approved payment method.

Do reimbursements have to go through a batch?

No. Approved claims can be paid in a batch, paid individually or marked as paid outside Finofo.

Where is a reimbursement batch released?

In Finofo Payments, from the link on the batch's Status pill.

Can approvers approve several claims at once?

Yes. Approvers can approve in bulk as well as one claim at a time.

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